"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote ...
It was actually in 1996 the requirement was dropped, long after Tony Benn.
Indeed some of the 1972 Local Government Act changes were incorporated
into the postal addresses - "Avon" was a particularly unpopular one.

I know nothing (and could care less) about governmental 'requirements' -
whether they 'required it' or not, it has been superfluous since the
seventies.

I suspect the 1996 change merely codified the day to day reality of the
previous thirty-odd years.

That's the level of efficiency I've come to expect form government
bureaucracy.
--

Andrew

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